I left my water bottle in my friend's car, so I am without it until Sunday when I see my friend again. I miss my water bottle! I carry it with me everywhere. I just got a new one, too, because the old one was gross and impossible to clean. My new one is shiny and purple and has a little dial on the neck to keep track of how much water I've consumed.

So, while I'm missing my water bottle...tell me about yours! Is it awesome? Do you carry it with you all the time? Do you have more than one? Do you have a story about yours? Or a photo? How much water do you drink each day? Tell me!

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My water bottle is stainless steel with a black screw on cap and says "Word On The Street" on it which is the name of the literary festival I bought it at. It's cap has a convenient hook on it, which I never hook to anything, but the option is there. I am an ice water fiend and my regular ice cubes won't fit in the opening but luckily, I have a tray that makes little cubes and so I fill my water bottle with this entire tray of cubes and then top it off with water. Sort of like 'would you like some water with that ice?' The ice makes the exterior of my stainless steel bottle very cold after a few minutes and I start passing it from hand to hand as I can't stand the icy cold of holding it. Then, I have to stop holding it in my bare hands and wedge it between my sleeve and my side so my clothed parts can take the cold. Luckily, I only use my water bottle when I'm going downstairs to the fitness room in my condo so the elevator ride is short.

My water bottle tends to taste and smell of whatever lipstick or balm I'm wearing to the fitness room so whenever I take a swig, all I smell and taste is lipstick and metallic, wet stainless steel. People say water doesn't taste like anything--but I don't agree with that at all. I always wondered what other people were drinking when they said water tastes like nothing. I've also heard people say that vodka has no taste and I really what the fizzle then, like all in CAPS what the fizzle because vodka most definitely tastes like something. I mean, it's strong like sucking on a lemon and that's not tasting of nothing. Air tastes like nothing I would say. Water tastes like something, but I don't know what. Water tastes like an entity unto itself. My water, when I swig it from my bottle tastes like lipstick, wet stainless steel and...water.

I have a blue SIGG 1 liter bottle. It's dented, the cap is not so clean and I can't get it clean, but nevertheless it's my first and favourite water bottle. It lives on my desk at work, because I drink about 2 liters per day while sitting here, sometimes more. I miss it on long weekends when I forget to take it with me and so I drink much less and am thirsty. I bought it online 4 years ago, not realizing I could actually find it in stores all over the city.

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I re-use the 1 liter bottles of whatever mineral water I've bought until it looks like the bottle is about to develop a crack. I think I've been using my current Buxton bottle for at least 6 months. It's looking a little shabby but still usable.

i have two stainless bottles, both now LEAK from the lid after 5 years!! I am so disappointed, and I can't find lids that will fit them. I can get nalgene but hate it.So not sure what to do. People keep giving me stainless with the little sippy cup top but they only hold about a soda can's worth, i can drink 3L a day, so it don't help me much.My current less-leaky bottle was once kelly green with an argyle pattern on it. the paint has mostly worn off, so it looks like maybe a float from the side of a fishing boat driven by an aging pirate who can't find his glasses when it's time to turn to port.

I like glass bottles. I had a gorgeous large glass bottle with a beautiful elephant etched on it that I bought at a craft fair, and a cleaner at a hotel I was staying at chucked it (didn't even recycle it, because I checked the hotel's recycling!). I still mourn its loss. Now I usually just use 1-litre mason jars, because we have millions of them sitting around at work.

I've never really liked the stainless ones because the good ones are so expensive, and the cheaper ones bend and leak.

i have one of the 22 oz. life factory glass bottles. mine is orange, which i'm not sure they make anymore. i just recently got a blue flip top for it. i luuuuuurve it. i probably drink 2 or 3 bottles a day. i should probably make sure i get a solid 3 in, but for some reason since i started working from home i drink a lot less than when i used to work in an office.

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this is my all time favorite. I don't like metal water bottles because they seem to smell mildewy really fast and also I can taste the metal, which really bothers me. This BPA free plastic one is so good. It never leaks or opens in my bag, holds a good amount of water and I don't have to unscrew it to take a drink. it's the best and they are $10 at target.

this is my all time favorite. I don't like metal water bottles because they seem to smell mildewy really fast and also I can taste the metal, which really bothers me. This BPA free plastic one is so good. It never leaks or opens in my bag, holds a good amount of water and I don't have to unscrew it to take a drink. it's the best and they are $10 at target.

Yeah, tap water varies HUGELY across the US. Seattle's is drinkable. The worst I've had was maybe Palm Springs.

I have a couple of cheap aluminum bottles with screw caps. They're both purple and I hardly ever use them. For workouts I have a dozen or so plastic ones of the type that fit in bike bottle cages. I am not attached to any of those really.

I have an insulated blue kleen kanteen. Its dented and scratched but i love it. I use it for my coffee first then for water the rest of the day. Its multipurpose! Fits in my water bottle cage on my bike too.

I have an orange kleen kanteen that I've had for 4 years. It works great! If I needed to replace it, I'd buy another kleen kanteen.

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I have a blue bpa free plastic Camelback. It's pretty easy to clean and I can put it in the dishwasher to get it really clean! It's on my desk at work. But I don't nearly drink enough water. I used to be really great at drinking at least three bottles worth of water a day at work. Which would be 72 oz. But I suck now, plus I had to get up and pee like every 5 minutes and that was annoying.

I have a green 32-ounce Nalgene (one of the newer-ish ones, so BPA-free), which has been serving me well for the past 4ish years. It is somewhat inconveniently large, so I don't really take it places. I also haveone of those plastic ones that fold flat when empty, which is pretty cool and portable.

Also, if I'm going to be at work or someplace for a while, I'll fill up my thermos with coffee or tea, and then just rinse it out and use it for water.

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Drinking water not from the tap weirds me out. I had this really pretty green metal bottle, but I lost the cap...now I have a plastic Oxo one I got for free that I like, but I'm not sure if it's actually BPA-free or not and I keep meaning to check. But it was free!

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I am a terrible person. I lose water bottles all the time, so I gave up using a nice re-usable one.

About once a week I buy a bottle of water from the machine at work for .25, and use it and keep refilling it with water until I lose it (4-7 days). I carry water with me everywhere, and drink at least 3 20oz bottles a day.

At least I recycle them when I find a pile of them in the back of my car, or under the bed or whatever.

Also, I hate the way re-usable ones smell. I have not found one that is not stinky, no matter how often I clean it. I do use one for when I go hiking/trail running since I can put ice in it and it stays colder, but it always smells funny.

I have a smoky black plastic Camelback 1 liter bottle. It's pretty beat up, and I think it's got a leak in the top now, but I've had it for years. I love it because it's spill-proof, except for the potential leak. It has a built-in straw and a folding bite nozzle, so I can fill it up, put it in my school bag full of books and paperwork, and not worry about it.

I only drink tap water. I got over concerns about clean water and plastic containers when I was enlisted. In basic, I was drinking out of a used (by that I mean, I was not the first owner) canteen filled with water from a giant barrel on wheels. Clean water from the tap is an underappreciated luxury.